Angular Has Some Great New Features

Angular is improving their templating language.

💬 Topics:
- Advantages and disadvantages of Angular;
- ZoneJS vs Signals;
- Standalone API;
- Alternatives to structural directives in Angular;
- Built-in control flow.

#javascript

[hanzofuma]

I used many UI libraries and frameworks but the way angular works and the concepts he introduce are just amazing. That's why for me Angular is the best and my 1st choice even when i use other UI framework I try my best to use the angular concepts and design.

[TayambaMwanza]

You may not like Angular but the angular team are absolute legends they keep making progress and maintaining enthusiasm despite the trolling

[tsenguun]

Super excited about the new RFC.

I code in both react and angular but angular is my go to when it comes to personal projects.

[akrishnadevotee]

You're not fooling me, Angular. I already changed my job😁

[TayambaMwanza]

Also one more thing, structral directives are not disappearing completely, its only the ngIf, ngFor and ngSwitch that are going, youll see in the RFC details that they will not be deleting all the directives

[alinghinea]

I am quite reserved about the following changes. The 'old' syntax is much more intuitive to me. But I can't wait to see what else they add 👍

[BrandonRobertsDev]

Just wait until Angular gets a meta-framework 😄

[deathone]

Can we bully React like we always should have?

[rustammukhametshin]

Comparing all frameworks, my favorite one is the Angular, just my opinion.

[vaisakh_km]

:( i am running out of technologies to blaim... feels like issues in my todo app is due to my incompetance than framework i am using....

[ezaz]

So angular is trying to be the svelte.

[punkweb]

Angular has always been easier and less fucky than React, I don't get how anyone would think otherwise

[patocarrasco]

if that's svelte like syntax, to me it looks like any of them inspired from the templating syntax (jinja2) of python. That's cool because it won't hurt that much to learn any of these frontend frameworks.

btw, what's the difference between framework and meta-framework?

[o_glethorpe]

Maybe the problem is not that angular (with all that modules, services, components, directives) etc... is too hard, maybe the web dev community is too dumb? I mean, if grouping together components inside modules and when you want to use that component you need to import the module first is too hard, maybe the problem is You?

[RasmusSchultz]

"becoming simpler", but is it? adding even more features to choose from, without deprecating or removing anything, arguably adds complexity, even if those new features are simpler. Signals might be simpler and easier to use, but aren't replacing observables - so this becomes another thing you have to learn and take into account, more decision-making, more opportunities for bikeshedding. How many years before signals can actually replace observables? There's a lot of hard work ahead.

[DamonMedekMusic]

They straight up stole these ideas from svelte.

[radvilardian]

wtf, we need to find another framework to bully, lol, is that ur daily job, im dying laughing

[-cs]

This is nothing new. Angular team is just trying to bring concepts of other JS frameworks. On the other hand, other Framework Devs are focusing on bringing more new features.

[pluraltest]

Angular will always be trash to me have you look at it’s size? It’s as performant as a mobster tie to a cinder block and chuck down the river